Incredibly easy to understand.... definitely you are born to teach! have watched 6 so far and onto the next... Thank you!! I need to go back and hit "thumbs up" as I have forgotten until this one...
Ok I heard my quail and chickens have a blue and lavender gene in common but I think quail have another one too I wanted a gray and red bird so I would need to work not with my lavender gene unless I want both colours diluted Maybe they were talking about 3 diluter genes I can't remember now I have a Canadian collection of Quail who have had multiple diluter genes used But if I want to pick a bird out from here to breed with my red hens I would look for one with red at least on his cheeks showing he's not a lavender too
genetics for chickens black and red works for horses too I studied quite a bit on that, you have the main genes, modifiers like dilution or patterns, just like chickens. awwww your chickens aer so pretty.
Fascinating & well done. You are a natural teacher! I love the variety of breeds in my flock of hens. I willingly sacrifice some egg production with the less productive breeds for their color.
I have a question 🙋🏽♂️ about breeding mottling. if one of the rooster has 2 copies of the mottled gene Can I breed it to silver laced, or partridge Gold laced,or partridge And use there First generation offsprings to breed back to another rooster with two copies of the mottling gene Will I get some success in the mottling to show up on the second generation after that?
Yes I think you should. The original rooster is homozygous for the mottled gene and so looks mottled. The first generation all have one copy and since it's recessive they won't express that gene, they won't look mottled. If you mate those back to a homozygous mottled bird (either sex mating will do) half of the offspring will end up with two copies of the mottled gene and so will express that in their feather pattern. But what I don't know is what would be the effect of the other pattern genes (Co, Ml and Pg) on the expression of the mo gene. Although we know the bird has two mottled genes and will express it somehow I don't know what the feather pattern will actually look like. If I wanted mottles and only had one rooster to start with, I would choose a plain coloured bird, like a buff Orpington, for the first cross. On the other hand if you have a mottled rooster and some laced hens and are just wondering what they might produce, then just do it and see. They might look amazing! You could try it out on the Kippenjungle chicken calculator kippenjungle.nl/chickencalculator.html
I’m so sad how people ruin animals like cows pigs and chickens to make them so fat they can’t even move just to murder them :( but chickens really are gorgeous I love beautiful birds :)
Chickens in my garden humans definitely have gone way to far what is your opinion on the being vegan where we don’t treat animals like objects and slaves I would highly suggest it myself all you would have to do is cut the meat and dairy out and just eat your own eggs
What a gene does (in this case cause dilution of pigments) is not related to whether it is dominant (acts when present in even one dose) or recessive (only shows in the phenotype when present in two doses).
To my understanding it's not really either. The blue gene only works as a diluter of eumelanin - the black pigment. Silver works over the gold colour produced by pheomelanin. Whether a feather would have black colour (maybe diluted to blue) or gold (maybe covered by Silver) depends on the pattern genes. But blue doesn't relate to the gold/silver dichotomy. I have a video about how the blue gene affects black ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p35NOBLRcV8.html
Thank you - brilliant video. I can see now how so many of my chickens got to be how they are! Definitely watching lacing as I have some Indian Game eggs ('Cornish') in the incubator!
Oh, it's so much fun to watch all that theory in action by hatching chicks. Actually it's just fun hatching chicks anyway 😊 Best wishes for a successful hatch!
@@chickensinmygarden Yes - it gets a bit addictive! I have 18 Marans (dark eggers) and 18 Indian Game eggs in the incubators at the moment, as well as two lots of growing chicks. I already have my eye on some Australorps, to try and join in with a friends project on crossing them with Indian game (one is a World record egg producer, but still dual purpose, the other a meat bird with double lacing). I think I'm going to have to wait before starting the next hatches though, as I have some fencing to redo, and a goose house to finish! My son is off to uni this autumn, so I figured I could start a new project!
Oh, Australorp plus Indian Game sounds like a great cross! Indian Game is very rare here but maybe one day I'll be lucky to get some. Best wishes with that project.
Should I be watching the playlist from start to finish instead of happening upon this video first when searching for breeding Orpington chickens for color?
Your videos are fantastic! Very easy to understand, and hitting all the necessary points to get the basics of chicken genetics. I bred reptiles for years and often dealt with Het vs Homo, Dom, CoDom, IncDom, and Recessive traits. I wasn't sure how some of the genetics came together for certain chicken colors, comb shapes, patterns etc. and you've really pointed me in the right direction! Your videos are totally under viewed and are hidden gems! Thanks again for your hard work :)
Of course you can. But what colour offspring you get will depend on the genetic background that's causing the black and white. The silver should behave exactly as I describe in the videos. The white might be dominant or recessive (I'm not sure for Polish and it might even vary depending on the strain) but it won't be sex linked.
Ok this helps so much a little light went off ;) I have been breeding rabbits for years and started understand the color patterns i got with them But we got hens this year and wondering how they got their patterns too This fascinating to me i will be looking at your other genitic videos thanks:)
Excellent! It's a fascinating subject 🙂 my videos are just a tiny peek into the complexity. Maybe they will inspire you to learn more and try some experiments for yourself
@@chickensinmygarden yes we want to hatch Easter egg chicks to go with our isbar and leg bar hens they are about 20 weeks and we will be hatching out eggs soon Can't wait to watch them all grow
Nice video! But i have a question. So i have 2 chickens. 1 rooster and 1 hen. The rooster has gray feathers with a barred pattern, and the hen has brown feathers, with a laced pattern that is a slightly lighter brown. What colors and patterns could i get if i breed them?
Almost anything - barred, laced, double-laced, columbian, plain, or duckwing patterns,in grey, brown, black, white, and/ or blue. They should be a pretty mixture of chickens 🙂
There might be a few less if you know the exact genetic makeup of your two parent birds - for example you said neither of them have white feathers but their chicks could look white if they are carrying the recessive white gene.
Thanks for your kind attention ☺. Country chicken or Nattu Kozhi is the term used to refer to the many indigenous breeds and/or mixed breed and mongorel chickens which have been raised in the villages of India for centuries. Actually I trying to develop a motteled country chiken. Comparing to other chiken breedes country chikens have very nice body shape and shiny feathers. Most of the chiken are single colours like black, brown, yellow, blue, red, so if you have time please make a video about colour mixing and motteled developments in chikens☺☺please take as request.
Ah I see. Well in order to get mottled chickens you have to have the mottle gene. Are there any chickens in your country that look mottled? Even if they are not the colours you want, as long as they have the pattern you can work with that.
The mottle gene is recessive so if you start with a mottled bird, all the offspring will carry that gene even if they don't look mottled. Then if you cross the offspring to each other or back to the parent bird you will get some birds that look mottled.